How to Use kill off in a Sentence

kill off

verb
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  • We were being killed off in the scene and didn’t know it.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Tom Wood’s character was killed off near the end of the movie.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
  • As the team looked to kill off the game, FCD ventured forward late.
    — Dallas News, 7 May 2022
  • And another chance to kill off the game went wanting in the 80th minute.
    — Dallas News, 30 July 2022
  • The whole point of getting a fever is to slowly cook the sickness out of your body, killing off the pathogens in the process.
    — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Back in the old-timey days, killing off the star of a series was unthinkable.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But does that mean he's being killed off the ABC drama?
    — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 30 May 2024
  • That line was killed off and replaced with the Nest Audio speakers.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
  • He’s killed off in a senseless way—some could even say his send-off was screwed up and random and mean.
    — TIME, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Marine heat waves also speed up the melting of ice sheets and kill off fish stocks and wildlife.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 24 June 2023
  • When’s the best time to kill off lawns for later ground cover planting?
    — oregonlive, 9 July 2022
  • The airy emptiness of the platform has not, as predicted, killed off new life.
    — Alex Quicho, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Lead fishing sinkers and jigs, which are still legal in the state, kill off loons that ingest them.
    — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 17 June 2021
  • But antibiotics kill off plenty of the good stuff, too.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Feb. 2023
  • So much so, that that phones have all but killed off the digital camera at this point.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2024
  • In the wake of the 2017 accusations against Spacey, he was fired from House of Cards, with his character killed off in the show.
    — Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The writers and Hall had planned to kill off the character early on in the revival season.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2022
  • The first was fought in 1948, when Arab enemies sought to kill off a newborn state that barely had an army.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Today, after years of drought have killed off many firs, the pines are making a comeback.
    — Reed Parsell, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • That sounds like an easy challenge for a character who kills off hitmen the way most of us eat lunch.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Once James Bond was given feelings, there was nothing to do but kill off Daniel Craig.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The rise of streaming services like Netflix, Max and Disney+ was supposed to kill off cable.
    — Joel Mathis, theweek, 23 May 2024
  • After dropping the third set, La Costa Canyon took an 11-5 lead on Magnin’s kill off the block in transition.
    — Tim Meehan and Breven Honda, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
  • Google did the same thing to its Google Fit product in 2019, killing off the more powerful website in favor of an app focus.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 June 2024
  • The rising water levels due to climate change are also killing off cherry trees that line the basin.
    — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 30 June 2024
  • There are no practical treatments to kill off the fungi that produce the mushrooms.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 23 Sep. 2020
  • No one can guarantee that the stuffing will get hot enough to kill off all the bacteria before the bird is done cooking.
    — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Lear fired Amos after the third season, and his character was killed off in a car accident.
    — Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2023
  • And that is to kill off the bald eagles and ospreys that have repopulated the lower river valley.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2024
  • In lab tests that reproduced conditions on the seafloor in the new study, the researchers poisoned the seawater with mercury chloride to kill off microbes.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 22 July 2024

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